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Welcome to the Ducklings webpage!

In Term 4 Ducklings will be taught by Mrs Roberts (Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday) and Mrs. Mitchell (Thursday and Friday) and Mrs. James, Mrs. Maslin, Holly & Mrs Bean are the teaching assistants.

Useful information

Tuesday - sharing books are sent home

Tuesday is PE day - please ensure your child has a PE kit in school every week

Friday - phonics books are sent home and collected the following Thursday

Friday - newsletters are sent via Arbor, homework challenges are sent home in book bags and Ed the Duck is sent home

Please remember we have children with severe nut allergies and are therefore a strictly nut-free school. Any item in a lunch box containing traces of nuts will be sent home unopened. Thank you for your understanding and support.

Welcome to Term 5!

This term our theme is 'Outside we go!' and we will be learning outdoors as much as we can! We will be looking at changes in the environment and we move from Spring to Summer, and will be planting our own flowers to make a bee-friendly garden. We will also plant vegetable seeds and watch them grow into plants that we can eat, and will plant a tree and learn to name its parts. We will learn about life cycles, and will continue to observe our tadpoles as they develop into frogs. In RE we will be learning about stories from different World religions, and in Art we will be using different materials to print.

In Phonics we will learn to read words with adjacent consonants, such as tent, frog, clamp, splash and sprint. We will be taught to read the new tricky words said, so, have, like, some, come, love, do, were, here, little, says, there, when, what, one, out and today.

As always, we will be listening to wonderful books to support our learning, including the following;

Welcome to Term 4!

This term we will be learning about Terrific Tales! We will base our learning on the following traditional tales;

We will be listening to different versions of each of these stories, and talking about what is the same and what is different. We will be acting out the stories and sequencing pictures into the correct order.

This term we will also go outside and find signs of Spring, and plant seeds in our garden. In RE we will learn about Spring festivals, including the Hindu festival of Holi. At the end of the term we will listen to the Easter story and visit All Saints Church for a special Easter celebration. On Shrove Tuesday we will make and eat pancakes and learn about this tradition - we are very much looking forward to this! We will continue to visit Lydd Library regularly and will learn outdoors as much as possible!

We have lots to look forward to this term!

Welcome to Term 3!

This term our theme is 'Amazing Animals'! We will be learning all about where animals live, how they are adapted to their environments and what they need to survive. Later on in the term we will learn about animals that lived in the past - dinosaurs - and also about mythical creatures. We will be talking about how New Year is celebrated in our own country and in other countries, and talking about our hopes for 2025. As always we will base our learning on wonderful books, including the following;

In Phonics we will revise all of the GPCs learnt so far - s, a, t, p, i, n, m, d, g, o, c, k, ck, e, u, r, b, h, f, l,ff, ll, ss, j, v, w, x, y, z, zz, qu, ch, sh, th, ng, nk- and practice blending them together to read words. We will learn new GPCs - ai, ee, igh, oa, oo, oo, ar, or, ur, ow, oi, ear and air. We will also learn to read words containing double letter digraphs - dd, mm, tt, bb, rr, gg, tt, ff - and to read longer words. Our new tricky words will be was, my, by, you, they, are, all, sure and pure.

We will be learning outside as much as possible and taking part in Nature School activities on Fridays! We have lots of look forward to this term!

Welcome to Term 2!

This term our theme is 'Ticket to Ride'! We will be learning about how we travel between places, and all about the wonderful world that we live in! We will learn about where we live and talk about other places we have visited, and how these places are the same and different. At the start of the term we will learn about Bonfire Night and Remembrance, and talk about how these events are marked. At the end of the term we will learn all about the Christmas Story, and will also be performing our Christmas play! As always we will base our learning on wonderful books, including the following;

In Phonics we will revise all of the GPCs learnt so far - s, a, t, p, i, n, m, d, g, o, c, k, ck, e, u, r, b, h, f, l - and practice blending them together to read words. We will learn new GPCs - ff, ll, ss, j, v, w, x, y, z, zz, qu, ch, sh, th, ng, nk - and new tricky words - put, pull, full, as, and, has, his, her, go, no, to, into, she, push, he, of, me, be, we.

We will be learning outside as much as possible and learning in our local area! We have lots of look forward to this term!

Welcome to Term 1!

This term out theme will be 'Me and My World' and we will be talking about all of the amazing things we can do! We will be talking about things we like and dislike, and how our families are all special. We will learn to name different parts of our bodies and learn how we explore our world with our five senses. Later on in the term we will observe signs of Autumn and take part in a Harvest Festival. We will read lots of books at school, including 'The Paper Dolls', 'In Every House on Every Street', 'The Little Read Hen', 'So Much', 'My five Senses' and 'Funnybones'. We will be learning outdoors as much as possible, and will visit Lydd Library and the school library .